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There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.

- Phil Lesh
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Especially in the realm of bringing an opportunity to do something creative to people, as I said, who wouldn't ordinarily have that opportunity. I think that's very important.

So, in the course of events, I had an opportunity to come in contact with Colin Matthews, through the Rex Foundation sponsoring recordings of various music that was being recorded over there.

Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the '90s.

In a way, it's my way of dealing with, finding closure with Grateful Dead music, and giving thanks in a way to Jerry and Bob and all the guys in the band for making up this wonderful music.

Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.

Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.

We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and it's really - we're thanking the Lord and the Earth for the food that we eat, and it really brings you together in a profound kind of way.

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There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.